Volume 40, Number 15 · September 23, 1993
The Heroism of Despair
By Denis Donoghue
Selected Letters
by Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels
Harvard University Press (Belknap Press), 587 pp., $29.95
Authority and Alliance in the Letters of Henry Adams
by Joanne Jacobson
University of Wisconsin Press, 161 pp., $14.95 (paper)
The Correspondence of Henry James and Henry Adams 1877–1914
edited by George Monteiro
Louisiana State University Press, 107 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Refinements of Love: A Novel about Clover and Henry Adams
by Sarah Booth Conroy
Pantheon/A Cornelia and Michael Bessie Book, 301 pp., $22.00
Henry Brooks Adams was born in Boston on February 16, 1838, to the burdensome privilege of being an Adams. His great-grandfather John Adams (1735–1826) was the second president of the United States. His grandfather John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) was the sixth president. 'Had he been born in Jerusalem,' Adams wrote of himself in The Education of Henry Adams,
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